The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-08

York AMI state the case, and rs already
had an accura te description of the bundle
| it would certainly be found in a short
time. And that was the sum and sub
stance of at
The next afternoon was going down
to Staten Island to a reception, and a.
had but two or three days in town, and
was extremely busy, and knew that IL
would be so far down town unless went
ON purpose, / took carriage to the ferry,
and ON the way down stopped at the
Adams Express company.
| / stated to the first man. who stood
near the doorway and who seemed to be
long to the place, that I had come to find
n missing bundle, and asked of whom
should inquire. He waived me aside with
quite magnificent gesture and said:
YOU'D better ask one of the clerks"
felt crushed, but tried not to look so,
and went still deeper into the gloom and
dust, seeing in the far distance two west
ern windows that seemed to catch some
dim radiance from some source far above.
I went on, and presently Il young man
met me, who appeared to look astonished,
but he was very polite. l said. Il came
to inquire about missing bundle" and
began my story. He said in the middle
of my first sentence:
"Wil you kindly come this way to the
Officer
So followed him.
When / first entered the doors couldn' t
see a man, but suddenly they seemed to
grow up everywhere Every huge box
seemed to have head behind it, and they
all had eyes, and they were all looking at
me. / felt very awkward and out of place,
and for the time being 1 wish / never had
been born.
At last we reached a small glass inclosetl
space, when my guide opened pew kind
of door, and said, "A lady about n lost
bundle and i found myself standing be
fore a man that terrified me so-and am
not timid woman-that / haven't an
idea what he looked like, except that -
seemed inoffensiye in every way. He
offered me a chair, and / sat down and
tried to make myself believe that this
man was not really the whole Adams Elk
press company; for this was the reason he
WIS able to tell him pretty clearly about
my lost bundle
1 accurately described it's appearance
and size, and all | knew about it, and
also all did not know about its contents
He listened very politely, and then he gave
me a blow that seemed To be entirely out
of rule He said:
''Have you inquired for it ut the office
of the Hotel Brunswick"
MOO said doubtfully, but / sup
pose Mr.. Haven did"
s'Ah, yes" he said ''WelI, have you
been to- the Twenty third street office 1t
would naturally have gone there
NO" said, II haven't inquired any
where out here. Mr.. Haven told me to
come here
.'Wellr'
''IIe Didn't say much more; neither did
L. He took my name and address, and
he, 10 q doc for MI nf1
he would do all in his power to have the
bundle found, and that | should hear from
him. And rs I walked out it didn't seem
to me that had done much about finding
my bundle by inquiring at headquarters.
The next day I went To the Hotel
Brunswick. and IL clerk came up into the
parlor and saw me.
BY that time was rather tired of telling
my story, and so went over il AS rapidly as
possible The clerk listened as politely as
the august representative of the express
company had done, and when had finished
he assured me that the matter should at
once be attended to, and that the bundle
would certainly be found ''in the near
future" | was very much impressed by
that phrase, as he probably meant | should
be. lie said:
ut stands to reason that it must be
found. We never send away n bundle
SO saying he politely ended, and / got
myself out ON the sidewalk, and felt at
first pretty sure of my bundle, but on
second thought | felt somewhat doubtful.
They all assured me it would be found,
and yet-well l began to feel very doubt
full.
The next day | went home. I waited a
month for an answer to my letter to my
sister. But when l did receive n letter
frsx hon. nf insa
which had evidently not reached her, as
she only spoke of the receipt of letter of
n date some two weeks previous.
To make II long story short, | may say
that never got an answer to my letter to
my sister She was travelling about, and
her letters We're short, and only full of
daily experiences. But it seemed exceed
ingly strange to me that she made no al
fusion at all To the letter about the bum
die. In each of my letters to her spoke
of my letter and asked her to tell me
about it; what was i'll it, was she sure of
her address, etc.
Finally. feeling sure that that particu-
lar and most important letter had been
lost, l wrote duplicate of it, Us nearly as
could. and sent it off. In the meantime
l had received two letters: one from the
Adams Express company, in which they
said that they could find no trace of the
be found for il either in their books or in
the Hotel brunswick.
l received also letter from the Hotel
Brunswick.
1t was of the same tenor; they had no
record; they regretted extremely the loss
and annoyance to me ana to Mr.. Haven.
They stated explicitly that no suspicion
could be attached to the clerk who had
left them, and regretted that they were
unable to give me his address.
The bundle was no longer ''missing."
1t wis
Ifylt resi- ned Iconsoletl myself. even
bccaI IL clad | reflected that if it had been
sto, Kin ; of rare and peculiar quality
and certainly my SISTER, knowing my fls-
tiCiious taste, wouldn't have sent me
common silk stoCkingS-that they might
have been the cause of producing all sorts
of dS4Stcr3-
For instance, if they had been silk
stockings of uncommon beauty. 1 should
have no shoes to match. | might have
found something at O'NeilS to match;
or il not To match, tn ,io tulerably. And
rood srae.ou5! there would have been u
pretty bill To page Thea my dress would
have had 70 be of simple elegance"
We all know WHIST t.at means Simple
elegance X the rp-t expensive kind of
elegance i'm the msyI-ct To dress in sim
Pile elegance end - in an ordinary parlOr
would have been impossible 10 make
over my ps.rlur, and lit my clothes would
have been financial ruin TO my husband,
and moral ruin u my boys.
But | dill want 10 know what was in
the bundle. and l did want it found, be
cause it might have been something else
that wasn't moral and financial ruin
The months Wore away, and IL was six
n lR.al first k.a.a p1 of my